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The Ming dynasty (/ m ɪ ŋ / MING), [7] officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people , the majority ethnic group in China.
Members of the Ming dynasty continued to rule a series of rump states in southern China, commonly known as the Southern Ming, until 1662; the Ming dynasty followed the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and preceded the Manchu-led Qing dynasty. The Ming dynasty was founded by the peasant rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the Hongwu Emperor.
The History of Ming is the final official Chinese history included in the Twenty-Four Histories. It consists of 332 volumes and covers the history of the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644. It was written by a number of officials commissioned by the court of Qing dynasty , with Zhang Tingyu as the lead editor.
Ming forces reach Guangzhou and receive He Zhen's surrender [16] 25 April: Ming forces defeat Köke Temür and capture Luoyang [16] 26 May: Ming forces capture Wuzhou [16] July: Ming forces conquer Guangxi [16] 20 September: Ming forces capture Daidu (renamed Beiping) and the Yuan court flees to Inner Mongolia; so ends the Yuan dynasty [14 ...
For example, the Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644 (pp. 307–315, 1976) includes a sharply negative entry on the emperor. The most comprehensive Western work on the Zhengde Emperor, as of 2001, was the chapter "The Cheng-te reign, 1506–1521" (pp. 403–439) in The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644 ...
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The newly enthroned Tianqi Emperor sought the opinions of his ministers and ultimately used the Taichang era name for that year, before changing it to the era name Tianqi the following year. [12] During the Ming dynasty, many of the era names were repeated from the previous dynasties, including era names used by peasant rebellion armies, [ a ...